Community Realty Management, Inc. v. Harris

This appeal involves summary proceedings to dispossess a tenant for non-payment of rent. The appeal focuses on the adequacy of procedures to protect pro se tenants. Two significant issues raised are whether the trial court abused its discretion in failing to vacate a consent judgment for possession pursuant to Morristown v. Little, 135 N.J. 274, 639 A.2d 286 (1994), and whether Burlington County’s summary dispossess procedures adequately protect pro se tenants.

The trial court refused to vacate the judgment for possession and the Appellate Division affirmed in an unreported decision. We…